NVIDIA RTX 3050: How good is the most affordable RTX Ampere card?

Semiconductor shortage hit us hard gamers It’s been a few years now, but things seem to be getting better little by little.

One of the good news this 2022 has been the introduction of RTX 3050 from NVIDIA for desktop computers, noting more affordable option for many users. But how good is this graphics card? We tell you our experience.

We tried RTX 3050 from Palit in his version Dual OS.

Design

This version RTX 3050 it is quite light with a mostly plastic body.

The back cover has a honeycomb design that allows air to pass through, and on the side of the dual fans we can see a nice design.

And what many gamers will like, we have RGB in “GEFORCE RTX”. This can be programmed with a compatible board. Mind you, it only displays one color at a time.

Spectacle

RTX 3050 brings to market technologies such as ray tracing D DLSSwith the latter gaining more and more importance.

The player who carries RTX 3050 at home is usually focused on games in Full HD (1080P), although you can get good results in multiplayer games with DLSS a 1440P.

Even esports games work great at 1440P. Dota 2 it averaged 138 frames per second (FPS) at the highest settings.

But let’s move on to 1080P, the most recommended resolution for users of this card.

More demanding AAA game like cyberpunk 2077 this gave us 58 fps on the “High” setting. Here we lay our hands on DLSS to have more fps: we increased the fps to 81 fps, above 60 fps.

We have slightly reduced the requirements with Far Cry 6, a recent AAA game. 88 fps graphics on “High”.

and if you want to play Fortnite with this video card you will succeed. 114 fps also at the High setting. You also have the option to use DLSS in this popular game, what might interest you is if you have a monitor with a high refresh rate.

A dual-fan system is effective with a graphics card that has been clocked up to 1912 MHz in cyberpunk 2077, above the frequency of 1822 MHz in the data sheet. The maximum recorded temperature was 62.3 degrees Celsius.

As for power consumption, it reached 126 W, approaching NVIDIA’s “standard” limit.

Worth it?

Not all users play in 4K or 1440P. RTX 3050 It’s a good alternative in a world where most people play at 1080P and GTX 1650 most popular video card by version Steam.

We are currently seeing RTX 3050 a little more expensive than gtx 1660 superwhich is still a good alternative.

However RTX 3050 has points in favor. More video memory, more software support in the future thanks to a newer version, Broadcast NVIDIA to improve the quality of video calls and DLSS This will give you a longer lifespan.

At low prices for GPUs RTX 3050 This is a great option if you can find it in the middle. 1200 D 1400 soles, depending on the model and brand, in Peru.